LSBU Student Teambuild activity is a roaring success!
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London South Bank University (LSBU) students took part in the second-ever ‘Student Teambuild’ competition which was hosted by Teambuild UK.
Sixty students from the School of the Built Environment and Architecture at LSBU gave up their weekends to take part in the competition to learn more about the discipline they are studying, along with gaining essential skills ranging from team work to confidence building.
Teambuild is a cross-disciplinary construction competition, held over a weekend in October/November, the first event took place in 2013. The competition is organised by a Charitable Trust, the ‘Teambuild Association’, incorporated in 2010.
Sixty undergraduate and post graduate students took part, on a purely voluntary basis, to put their effort in taking part in the competition. Students who signed up were allocated to multi-disciplinary teams and asked to complete a series of tasks based around a real construction project – from the master plan, outline design, procurement, to construction – in a 48-hour period.
Over the course of the weekend, each group was required to make a series of presentations which were assessed by a team of judges drawn from industry. In addition, students were offered a site visit to a multi-million pound construction site as part of their experience and also a chance to network with professionals from international companies working in all parts of the industry.
LSBU Senior lecturer in the School of Built Environment and Architecture, Steve Pittard said: “I’m delighted for LSBU to be involved in such an innovative project which not only helps our students gain vital skills which can be applied to their line of work, but also teaches them the importance of fellowship and teamwork. We hope that this project can be replicated in the near future and more LSBU students can be inspired by this type of project.”